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Saturday 03 k 1 2011 11:31 GMT
Alsumaria News / Baghdad


Considered the Kurdistan Regional Government, on Saturday, that the federal government has no right to monopolize all the decisions in Iraq, noting that the Iraqi constitution gives the region the right to sign oil contracts with foreign companies.

The official said the Department of Foreign Relations Falah Mustafa government in a press statement, said that "the federal government in Baghdad does not have the right to monopolize all the decisions in Iraq," noting that "the Federal Constitution gives the Permanent Government of the Territory the right to sign oil contracts with foreign companies."

Mustafa added that "the territory of Kurdistan will not waive this constitutional right," pointing out that "the campus of the region in the past to enjoy the riches and the right of disposal because of the failed policies of the Baathist regime dissolved."

Mustafa stressed that "the region attaches great importance to developing the sectors of industry and wealth he has," adding that "in the interest of the region and Iraq alike."

The odds for a long time between the KRG and the central government in Baghdad over oil fields in the north, as is the recent contracts signed between the Territory and international oil companies illegal.

The President of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, Massoud Barzani, said in his statement, on Friday, to proceed to contract with Exxon Mobil to drill for oil on land belonging administratively to the province of Nineveh.

The deputy prime minister for energy Hussain al-Shahristani denied, in the (November 12, 2011), approval of contracts for oil exploration venture between Exxon Mobil and the Kurdistan region, stressing that the ministry informed the company in refusing to sign these contracts, while refuted the Ministry of Natural Resources This region, stressing that the province signed an agreement with the U.S. oil company, on 18 October 2011 on six sectors to explore.

The Ministry of Oil in Baghdad, in (November 17, 2011), that Exxon Mobil would lose $150 million by the contract with the Kurdistan region, as indicated that the company did not respond today to such contracts, confirmed that the oil and gas law, if approved, will not confer any legitimacy to the violation of contracts, the company warned of the dissolution of the contract signed with them earlier to develop the West Qurna field in Basra.